The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump coddled his rioters after he told them to go home in peace and love after rioting for three hours.

 

Trump still won't say what he did at the White House during the three hours of rioting at the Capitol.

In a televised interview nearly three years after the riot, Trump said to the interviewer that he will say what he was doing at an appropriate time.

 

Trump repeatedly made the same type of remarks when asked about when he would finally disclose his tax returns.

 

Muntzer convicted of obstruction which carries a maximum of 20 years in prison.

He talked like he was going to receive an award for attacking the Capitol.


Jan. 6 rioter who bragged he'd 'be cleared' for storming Capitol is convicted

 

If Trump is reelected, he can give him an award.

 

Trump made that remarks just after his attorneys ended a session at the Supreme Court, which is grappling with whether he can be taken off ballots.

Trump also declared every court case against him 'illegal' after the session.

 

Supreme Court seems skeptical of allowing Trump to be removed from ballot.


Live: Supreme Court hears arguments on whether Trump should remain on ballot

 

Special counsel critical of Biden in documents case but no criminal charges will be filed in contrast to Trump's case.


Special counsel passes on charging Biden but paints damning portrait of him

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"But while the report withheld condemnation of Biden on legal grounds, it presented a harsh portrait of his conduct and mental faculties. Biden improperly took classified material related to the 2009 Afghanistan troop surge and shared classified information with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir. The report also includes photos of classified documents in insecure places, including a cardboard box in Biden’s garage and a filing cabinet under his TV.

In the report, Special Counsel Robert Hur, a well-respected former U.S. Attorney, explained the president’s “lapses in attention and vigilance demonstrate why former officials should not keep classified materials unsecured at home and read them aloud to others, but jurors could well conclude that Mr. Biden's actions were unintentional.""

 

Federal judge formally orders Trump to pay $83 million to Carroll.


Judge affirms $83.3 million verdict against Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll defamation case | CNN Politics

 

He has to think of the right lie to say.

 

Trump is expecting the Supreme Court to rule in his favor in the 14th Amendment ballot disqualification case.

If it does, he wants to project that ruling onto all of his four criminal and his civil cases to try to make it look like they are illegal.

 

Trump has to pay Carroll if he accepts the loss and also if he chooses to appeal, which he has said he would do.

Trump had two more losses this week in the Carrol case. A judge threw out his motion to declare a mistrial. A federal judge confirmed the payout Trump has to make to Carroll.

 

Putin has befriended the Republican party that embraces Reagan.


Trump, Putin, Carlson and the Shifting Sands of Today’s American Politics

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"Instead of a ruthless autocrat seeking to conquer territory through the most violent war in Europe since the Nazis fell, Mr. Putin has made himself into something of a like-minded ally of certain right-wing forces in the United States, not least of all Mr. Trump, who praised his aggression as “genius” just before Russian forces stormed across the border into Ukraine in 2022. And Mr. Putin seems to be prevailing in the American capital in a way that would have once been unthinkable, with the help of a party that still pays homage to Ronald Reagan."

 

Trump Says Jan. 6 Was an Insurrection

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"Trump disagrees, apparently.

“They kept saying about what I said right after the insurrection,” he said outside Mar-a-Lago after arguments concluded in Washington, D.C. “I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi."

 

Trump has admitted that an insurrection occurred at the Capitol.

In Trump's perception, he didn't cause the insurrection. It was supposedly caused by Pelosi (or Nikki Haley, as Trump has said when he was confused at a rally) because Pelosi (or Haley) didn't accept the 10,000 National Guard troops that Trump never offered, a fact confirmed by Trump's acting Defense Secretary Miller during the Congressional January 6 hearings.

 

10,000 National Guard troops is well beyond the approximate 1,500 of DC Guard that were available at Trump's disposal that he also didn't use. Ordering 10,000 troops, or even preparing for it, would have left a trail of paperwork that doesn't exist.

In spite of Trump claiming in a recorded video posted the day after the riot that he immediately activated the National Guard as soon as the violence started at the Capitol, no records exist of such a claim. Pence and Pelosi had to do the job of obtaining the National Guard from the loading dock area in the basement of the Capitol during the riot.

Trump could always say he 'thought about it.'

 

Acting Defense Secretary. Another temporary official in the Trump administration due to all the people who quit his administration in frustration or whom Trump fired.

 

“Awful and unethical”: Legal experts say Judge Cannon could face removal for “disturbing” order

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"The order raised concerns among legal experts who have long worried that Cannon may be tilting the case in favor of Trump.

“Judge Aileen Cannon continues to make rulings that are disturbing,” former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote on Substack. “Perhaps we’d view any one of them, on their own, as a judicial aberration. But the pattern of ruling upon ruling that is out of the legal mainstream and results in delay well past the point where this case should have been ready for trial is something that shouldn’t be ignored. Judges should not put their fingers on the scales of justice either for or against a defendant or any other party. Here, it’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that the scales are being tipped.”

Smith’s “best option” may be to ask Cannon to reconsider, but the judge’s “dismissive tone towards the government suggests that there is little they can do to persuade her,” Vance wrote."

 

“Awful and unethical”: Legal experts say Judge Cannon could face removal for “disturbing” order

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"A big test will come next week when Cannon holds a hearing under Section 4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), where she will make rulings on what classified material in discovery can be used at trial. Trump is expected to seek additional delays in the case, asking Cannon to postpone the deadline for some pre-trial motions and revisiting his presidential immunity and Presidential Records Act claims that “border on being frivolous at this point, and using them to further delay this case would be a travesty,” Vance wrote.

“The time for Smith to decide whether to actively seek Cannon’s recusal, or at least hint to the Circuit that it’s merited, will be after the Section 4 hearing rulings are issued,” Vance noted. “Forced recusals are rare. But at this late date, even if the 11th Circuit were to move quickly, as it has in the past, and force Cannon to step aside, it would take a new judge some time to get up to speed. There are no quick fixes for the damage Judge Cannon has done,” she added."